Sunday, August 28, 2005

9:45 p.m. CDTNo rain, Light easterly wind. The low-lying clouds are moving fast southwest.Curfew went into effect at 9 p.m. and the streets are deserted.An old man just called into the newsroom from a payphone. He said that the VA home down here turned him away though they were allowing employees and their families in to take shelter.I'll check it out later.Some of the shelters are filling up and the emergency management people said they are shutting down two shelters in the west of our county because of a fear of flooding.Apparently 200,000 people didn't get out of New Orleans. Hopefully the storm will speed up.

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There are 200,000 people that we know of who have not evacuated New Orleans and countless others along the Gulf coast. Most of these people would rather be elsewhere, but do not have the means. We really must consider using the very resources that we taxpayers have purchased, to save lives. How many C5 and C130 transport planes do we (military/national guard) have? Now how many of those are deployed to foreign soil? How many are right here in the US, and not being used for this cause? These resources should be reallocated in these situations to prevent the massive loss of life. Last year, the ocean rose up and claimed 283,000 lives in Asia. If Katrina unleashes her wrath directly upon New Orleans, we will witness death and destruction on a massive scale again. We really must revaluate how we (our government and military) utilize our resources.